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A collection of stories
from the middle period of
the author's career that
show him exploring
complex, ambiguous and
often extreme emotions.
It presents characters
that face madness,
alienation and
frustration before they
experience brief,
ephemeral moments of
insight, often earned at
great cost, where they
confront the reality of
their existence.
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Philosophy combines
first-class scholarship
with thought-provoking
colour illustration to
bring key concepts of
philosophy to life,
showing not only how
these ideas originated
and evolved, but also
why they continue to have
relevance. In addition,
there are assessments of
many of the Western world
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The Upanisads are the
central scriptures of
Hinduism, representing
some of the most
important literary
products in the history
of Indian culture and
religion. This major new
translation incorporates
the most recent
historical and
philological scholarship.
An introduction and
detailed notes make it
the ideal edition for
both specialists as well
as students of Indian
religions.
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Who but the Marquis de
Sade would write, not of
the pain, tragedy, and
joy of love but of its
crimes? Murder,
seduction, and incest
are among the cruel
rewards for selfless love
in his stories; tragedy,
despair, and death the
inevitable outcome. This
new selection includes
'An Essay on Novels',
Sade's penetrating survey
of the novelist's art.
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The legend of King Arthur
has retained its appeal
and popularity through
the ages: Mordred's
treason, the knightly
exploits of Tristan,
Lancelot's fatally
divided loyalties and his
love for Guenevere, the
quest for the Holy Grail.
This title presents an
account of the knights of
the Round Table.
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Lets you find things that
lurk, things that scurry
in the walls, things
that move unseen, things
that have learnt to walk
that ought to crawl,
unfathomable blackness,
unconquerable evil,
inhuman impulses,
abnormal bodies, ancient
rites, nameless lands
lef
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Ruth Hilton, an orphan
and dressmaker's
assistant, is seduced
and then heartlessly
deserted by the wealthy
Henry Bellingham. A
dissenting minister
advises her to pass as a
widow and be employed as
a governess with the
tyrannical Mr Bradshaw.
However, the deceit
brings grievous
consequences.
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The short story is one of
the most varied genres in
American literature. This
title brings together
many of its finest
examples from the early
nineteenth century to the
present. It contains a
diverse cast of
characters, including
convicts, artists, farm
labourers, slaves,
soldiers and salesmen,
witches and ghosts,
families and lovers.
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One of the great
storybooks of the middle
ages: a master
storyteller from the
thirteenth century
recounts classic tales of
Icelandic mythology along
with a lesson to young
poets on the importance
of learning, respecting,
and continuing
traditional Icelandic
poetic styles.
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At first sight Harry
Haller seems like a
respectable, educated
man. In reality he is the
Steppenwolf: wild,
strange, alienated from
society and repulsed by
the modern age. But as he
is drawn into a series of
dreamlike and sometimes
savage encounters, the
misanthropic Haller
discovers a higher truth,
and the possibility of
happiness.
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A lonely twelve-year-old
is befriended and is
infatuated by a suave,
mysterious baron. When
his adored friend
heartlessly brushes him
aside and turns his
seductive attentions to
his mother, the boy's
jealousy and feelings of
betrayal become
uncontrollable. This
title is set in an
Austrian sanatorium in
the 1920s.
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This is a lively,
readable and accurate
verse translation of the
six best plays by one of
the most influential of
all classical Latin
writers. The volume
includes Phaedra,
Oedipus, Medea, Trojan
Women, Hercules Furens,
and Thyestes, together
with an invaluable
introduction and notes.
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With its rich and
ebullient language,
ironic twists and
startling juxtapositions,
Dead Souls (1842) stands
as one of the most
dazzling and poetic
masterpieces of the
nineteenth century. This
brilliant new translation
by Christopher English is
complemented by a superb
introductory essay by the
pre-eminent Gogol
scholar, Robert Maguire.
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'Only beauty can save the
world', proclaims Prince
Myshkin. But in the
brutally materialistic
world of late
nineteenth-century
Petersburg, infested
with greed and vulgarity,
Prince Myshkin's naive
beliefs can only be the
subject of mockery and
ultimately lead to
failure and tragedy.
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Kipling portrays school
as the first stage of a
much larger game, a
pattern-maker for the
experiences of life.
Implied throughout the
stories is the question
'What happened to these
fifteen-year-old boys,
and how did the lessons
they learned at school
apply to the world of
warfare and imperial
government?'
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In 1935, Henry Miller
set off from his adopted
residence, Paris, to
visit his home country -
America. He wrote an
account of his trip to
New York to his friend
Alfred Perles. This work
is filled with
impressions and
reflections, and
includes a sketch of his
journey, via steamer,
back to France.
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Guy Mannering is an
astrologer who only
half-believes in his art.
Instead he places his
faith in patriarchal
power, wealth and social
position. But the
Scotland of this novel is
a nation in which the old
hierarchies are breaking
down and in which each
social group lives by its
own laws.
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Set in Restoration
France, The Red and The
Black centres on Julien
Sorel, the novel's
restless, ambitious
hero. Julien rebels
against his circumstances
and determines to make
something of his life by
adopting the code of
hypocrisy through which
his society operates.
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Gaskell's depiction of a
fallen woman as her
heroine shocked
contemporary readers.
Ruth is seduced and
heartlessly abandoned but
finds shelter and love
with her illegitimate
child until a twist of
fate brings her past back
to haunt her. This new
edition explores the
novel's radicalism and
cultural influence.
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Suitable for recitation
at festivals, this title
includes 33 songs that
were written in honour of
the gods and goddesses of
the ancient Greek
pantheon. It features
songs that recount the
key episodes in the lives
of the gods, and
dramatise the moments
when they first appear
before mortals.
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Tells the life story of
David Copperfield, from
his birth in Suffolk,
through the various
struggles of his
childhood, to his
successful career as a
novelist. The early
scenes are particularly
masterful, depicting the
world as seen from the
perspective of a
fatherless, small boy,
whose idyllic life is
ruined when his mother
remarries.
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The ten stories collected
in this volume
demonstrate Tolstoy's
artistic prowess
displayed over five
decades experimenting
with prose styles and
drawing on his own
experiences with humour,
realism and compassion.
Inspired by his
experiences in the army,
The Two Hussars contrasts
a dashing father and his
mean-spirited son.
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Set around the time of
Iceland's conversion to
Christianity, this saga
follows a 50 year
blood-feud. The narrative
focuses on Njal
Thorgeirsson who, along
with his family, is
burnt alive in his home.
The saga exposes the
cathatic power of
vengance and inadequacy
of the law.
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Virgil offers
undergraduates, graduate
students and general
readers a comprehensive
and carefully balanced
introduction to the works
and literary reception of
Virgil. Offering a fresh,
comprehensive
introduction to Virgil in
translation, this book
traces the poet's
literary influence on
later authors and his
impact on the arts.
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Thady Quirk, steward to
the decaying estate of
the Rackrent family,
narrates a story of four
generations of a dying
dynasty in Castle
Rackrent. This volume
also includes Ennui, the
entertaining confessions
of the Earl of Glenthorn,
a bored aristocrat. Both
novels offer a darkly
comic and satirical
expose of the Irish class
system.
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In this newly available
English translation the
reader rediscovers the
essential humanist
preoccupations of the
author of Amok and
Twenty-four Hours in the
Life of a Woman: his
compassion towards human
suffering, the horror of
war and his faith in
idealism, generosity,
love - values that can,
in an instant,
illuminate an entire
existence.
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Emma Woodhouse,
handsome, clever, and
rich. Also, rather
spoiled, and
overly-confident in her
matchmaking abilities
with the residents of her
village in Highbury.
Though convinced that she
herself will never marry,
Emma sets out to find an
eligible match for her
new friend, Harriet
Smith. But matters of the
heart are never simple.
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On his third birthday
Oskar decides to stop
growing. Haunted by the
deaths of his parents and
wielding his tin drum
Oskar recounts the events
of his extraordinary
life; from the long
nightmare of the Nazi era
to his anarchic
adventures is post-war
Germany.
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My life looks as if it
had been wasted for want
of chances! When I see
what you know, what you
have read, and seen,
and thought, I feel what
a nothing I
am! Challenging the
hypocrisy and social
conventions of the rural
Victorian world, Tess Of
The D'Urbervilles follows
the story of Tess
Durbeyfield as she
attempts to escape the
poverty of her
background, seeking
wealth by claiming
connection with the
aristocratic D'Urberville
family. It is through
Tess's relationships with
two very different men
that Hardy tells the
story of his tragic
heroine, and exposes the
double standards of the
world that she inhabits
with searing pathos and
heart-rending sentiment.
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Mathieu Delarue, a
philosophy teacher, has
so far managed to contain
sex and personal freedom
in separate compartments.
But now he is in trouble,
trying to raise 4, 000
francs to procure a safe
abortion for his
mistress, Marcelle.
Beyond all this,
filtering an uneasy light
on his predicament,
rises the threat of the
coming of the Second
World War.
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Phileas Fogg was one of
those mathematically
exact people, who,
never hurried and always
ready, are economical of
their steps and their
motions. He never made
one stride too many,
always going by the
shortest route. He did
not give an idle look. He
did not allow himself a
superfluous
gesture. When Phileas
Fogg wagers a bet that he
can travel across the
globe in just eighty
days, little does he
know about the epic
journey that he is about
to undertake. With his
faithful French servant,
Passepartout, Phileas
Fogg embarks on the
adventure of a lifetime,
travelling across four
continents by whatever
means he can
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Louise and Tome Gradgrind
are raised in the
fictitious Coketown,
England by their father.
Thomas Gradgrind, is a
pragmatic and harsh
educator, influencing
his children leading them
to be lead adult lives
that are lacking in all
areas. Witnessing their
plight, their father
realises his own
principles may have led
to their downfall.
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Zuleika, the dazzling
offspring of a curate and
a circus-rider, is the
grand-daughter of the
Warden of Judas College,
Oxford. On her visit to
the city during Eights
Week, her beauty wreaks
havoc. Attracted only 'to
men who would not bow
down to her', Zuleika is
disappointed in her quest
for one whom she could
adore.
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Cicero (106-43 BC) was
the greatest orator of
the ancient world and a
leading politician of the
closing era of the Roman
republic. This book
presents nine speeches
which reflect the
development, variety,
and drama of his
political career. These
new translations achieve
new standards of
accuracy.
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I believe that on the
first night I went to
visit Gatsby's house, I
was one of the few guests
who had actually been
invited. People were not
invited - they went
there. After the war,
the mysterious Jay
Gatsby, a self-made
millionaire pursues
wealth, riches and the
lady he lost to another
man with stoic
determination. When
Gatsby finally does
reunite with Daisy
Buchanan, tragic events
are set in motion. Told
through the eyes of his
detached and omnipresent
neighbour and friend,
Nick Carraway,
Fitzgerald's succinct and
powerful prose hints at
the destruction and
tragedy that awaits.
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When Dr Philip Raven, an
intellectual working for
the League of Nations,
dies in 1930 he leaves
behind a powerful legacy
an unpublished dream
book'. Inspired by
visions he has
experienced for many
years, it appears to be
a book written far into
the future: a history of
humanity from the date of
his death up to 2105.
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Focuses on the narrator's
love for Lou, a woman
with whom he had a brief
relationship and who has
become an obsession. This
is a novel that ponders
the despair of living in
a world devoid of love
and true companionship.
It draws an urbane
portrait of the life of
Parisians, describing
their insecurities,
their preoccupations and
their egotism.
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A 17th century astronomer
staying at the chateau of
a beautiful Marchioness
accompanies her into her
garden at night and
introduces her to the new
discoveries of astronomy.
The first modern edition
of Aphra Behn's
translation of a charming
and witty dialogue by the
French writer Bernard de
Fontenelle.
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Now available in the
revolutionary new
flipback format, giving
book-lovers a real
reading experience sized
to fit in a shirt pocket
and optimized for easy
one-handed reading. The
flipback is a new kind of
book, which opens top to
bottom and has
sideways-printed text,
so you get a full length
novel in little more than
the size of an iPhone.
Printed on very thin,
but strong, paper with
normal sized text, these
books have special spines
that allow them to stay
open without a struggle.
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Paul Morel both loves and
is repelled by his
mother, a good woman who
makes up for her poor
marriage to a violent,
uneducated man by
lavishing all her
attention on her sons.
But as Paul grows up and
takes lovers, the
feelings between mother
and son will produce only
terrible conflict between
what Paul wants, and
what he truly needs.
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She had been forced into
prudence in her youth,
she learned romance as
she grew older: the
natural sequel of an
unnatural
beginning. Anne Elliot
is persuaded by her
friends and family to
reject a marriage
proposal from Captain
Wentworth because he
lacks fortune and rank.
More than seven years
later, when he returns
home from the navy, Anne
realises she still has
strong feelings for him,
but Wentworth only
appears to have eyes for
a friend of Anne's.
Moving, tender, but
intrinsically 'Austen' in
style, with its
satirical portrayal of
the vanity of society in
18th century England,
Persuasion celebrates
enduring love, hope and
determination as one
woman strives to reignite
a lost relationship.
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I cannot but conclude the
bulk of your natives to
be the most pernicious
race of little, odious
vermin that nature ever
suffered to crawl upon
the surface of the
earth. Shipwrecked on
the high seas, Lemuel
Gulliver finds himself
washed up on the strange
island of Lilliput, a
land inhabited by
quarrelsome miniature
people. On his travels he
continues to meet others
who force him to reflect
on human behaviour - the
giants of Brobdingnag,
the Houyhnhnms and the
Yahoos. In this scathing
satire on the politics
and morals of the 18th
Century, Swift's
condemnation of society
and its institutions
still resonates today.
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Tells the story of
darkest episode in
"Trojan War". At its
centre is Achilles,
greatest warrior-champion
of Greeks, and his
refusal to fight after
being humiliated by his
leader Agamemnon. But
when Trojan Hector kills
Achilles' close friend
Patroclus, he storms
back into battle to take
revenge - even though he
knows this may ensure his
own death.
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Contains stories that
show us truants,
seducers, gossips,
rally-drivers, generous
hostesses, corrupt
politicians, failing
priests, amateur
theologians, struggling
musicians, moony
adolescents, victims of
domestic brutishness,
sentimental aunts and
poets,
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Emerging from the grit
and stigma of poverty to
a life of fairytale
privilege under the wing
of her aunt, the
beautiful and financially
ambitious Kate Croy is
already romantically
involved with promising
journalist Merton Densher
when they become
acquainted with Milly
Theale, a New York
socialite of immense
wealth.
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Trapped in a stifling
marriage, Anna Karenina
is swept off her feet by
the dashing Count
Vronsky. When the truth
about their passionate
liaison comes out,
Anna's husband is more
concerned with keeping up
appearances than anything
else, but at last he
seeks a reluctant
divorce.
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Published in 1913, this
is a fictionalized
account of Lawrence's
love for his mother. It
traces Paul Morel's
childhood, his growing
into adolescence and
adulthood, and the
frustrations of his love
for Miriam and Clara
caused by his mother's
possessiveness and his
devotion to her.
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The Sonnets, by William
Shakespeare deal with the
themes of love, beauty
and mortality.
Shakespeare's sonnets are
frequently more earthy
and sexual than
contemporary sonnet
sequences by other poets.
One interpretation is
that Shakespeare's
Sonnets are in part a
pastiche or parody of the
three centuries-long
tradition of Petrarchan
love sonnets.
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Presents a tale of two
young lovers kept apart
by a family feud. This
title tells how inspired
by the suicides of two
real-life sweethearts and
set in rural Switzerland,
the tale evokes the
overwhelming beauty of
young love and nature,
but is ultimately
pessimistic about the
possibility of such
beauty surviving in the
real world.
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Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936) is an English
poet. A child of British
India, he first became
famous for tales of
imperial life, notably
Kim, the Jungle Book and
Barrack Room Ballads.
Kipling wrote verse in
every classical form,
from the epigram to the
ode, but his most
distinctive gift was for
the ballads and narrative
poems.
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To Paul Dombey, business
is all and money can do
anything. He runs his
family life as he runs
his firm: coldly,
calculatingly and
commercially. The only
person he cares for is
his little son, while
his motherless daughter
Florence craves affection
from her unloving father,
who sees her only as a
base coin that couldn't
be invested.
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Finding her comfortable
bourgeois existence as
wife and mother tedious
after eight years of
marriage, Irene Wagner
brings a little
excitement into it by
starting an affair with a
rising young pianist. Her
lover's former mistress
begins blackmailing her,
threatening to give her
secret away to her
husband.
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Oliver Twist has asked
for more! Fleeing the
workhouse, Oliver finds
himself taken under the
wing of the Artful Dodger
and caught up with a
group of pickpockets in
London. As he tries to
free himself from their
clutches he becomes
immersed in the seedy
underbelly of the
Capital, amongst
criminals, prostitutes
and the homeless. Dickens
scathing attack on the
cruelness of Victorian
society features some of
his most memorable and
enduring characters,
including innocent Oliver
himself, the Artful
Dodger, Fagin, Bill
Sikes and Nancy.
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This classic novel tells
the story of the orphaned
Emily St. Aubert who find
herself separated from
the man she loves and
confined within the
Castle of Udolpho. A new
introduction discusses
the Gothic Romance genre,
Radcliffe's use of the
supernatural and there
are explanatory textual
notes.
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After a routine security
check by George Smiley,
civil servant Samuel
Fennan apparently kills
himself. When Smiley
finds Circus head Maston
is trying to blame him
for the man's death, he
begins his own
investigation, meeting
with Fennan's widow to
find out what could have
led him to such
desperation.
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When Chadwick Newsome,
favoured with fortune and
independence, becomes
entangled in a liaison
dangereux with a Parisian
temptress, his mother
deploys her future
husband, Strether, as
an ambassador to engineer
his safe return. But
seduced by the charms of
Paris and the bewitching
comtesse de Vionnet,
Strether soon deserts to
Chadwick's side.
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Wealthy, confident and
handsome, Charles Van
Drift is not accustomed
to being swindled and his
brush with Colonel Clay
both rattles and
infuriates him. As his
South African diamond
fortune takes hit after
hit from the quick-witted
master of disguise, Van
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Matthew Bramble, a
gout-ridden misanthrope,
travels Britain with his
nephew, niece, spinster
sister and man-servant,
the trusty Humphry
Clinker. In poor health,
Bramble sees the world as
one of degeneracy and
raucous overcrowding,
and will not hesitate to
let his companions know
his feelings on the
matter.
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This is the story of
fatal attraction and its
consequences. The
American narrator's
highly-strung wife falls
for his bluff,
inarticulate English
friend. Retrospectively
piecing the story
together, the betrayed
and now widowed husband
puzzles over the
mysteries of the affair.
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It happened one day about
noon, going towards my
boat, I was exceedingly
surprised with the print
of a man's naked foot on
the shore.. Shipwrecked
in a storm at sea,
Robinson Crusoe is washed
up on a remote and
desolate island. As he
struggles to piece
together a life for
himself, Crusoe's
physical, moral and
spiritual values are
tested to the limit. For
24 years he remains in
solitude and learns to
tame and master the
island, until he finally
comes across another
human being. Considered a
classic literary
masterpiece, and
frequently interpreted as
a comment on the British
Imperialist approach at
the time, Defoe's fable
was and still is revered
as the very first English
novel.
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Features such stories as:
A Scandal in Bohemia,
The Adventure of the
Red-Headed League, A
Case of Identity, The
Boscombe Valley Mystery,
The Five Orange Pips,
The Man with the Twisted
Lip, The Adventure of
the Blue Carbuncle, The
adventure of the Speckled
Band, The Adventure of
the Engineer's Thumb,
and more.
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Son of a bankrupt
landowner, Frank Gresham
is intent on marrying his
beloved Mary Thorne,
despite her illegitimacy
and apparent poverty.
Frank's ambitious mother
and haughty aunt are set
against the match,
however, and push him to
save the family's
mortgaged estate by
making a good marriage to
a wealthy heiress.
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The Rainbow chronicles
the lives of three
generations of the
Brangwen family over a
period of more than 60
years, setting them
against the emergence of
modern England. In her
introduction to this
edition Kate Flint
illuminates Lawrence's
aims and achievements
against the background of
the burgeoning century.
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Continuing where The
Rainbow left off, this
novel looks at the third
generation of the
Brangwens: Ursula, now a
teacher, and her sister
Gudrun, who has returned
from an art school. It
focuses on their
relationships, Ursula's
with Rupert Birkin, a
school inspector, and
Gudrun's with Gerald, an
industrialist, and later
with a sculptor, Loerke.
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In The Elementary Forms
of Religious Life,
Durkheim investigated the
enduring source of human
social identity and
fellowship by studying
the simplest form of
documented religion,
totemism among the
Aborigines of Australia.
His book about the origin
and nature of religion
and society continues to
enthrall sociologists,
anthropologists,
ethnographers,
philosophers, and
theologians.
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Chronicles the lives of
three generations of the
Brangwen family, setting
them against the
emergence of modern
England. This work
examines the
relationships and the
conflicts they bring,
and the inextricable
mingling of the physical
and the spiritual.
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This authoritative
edition was formerly
published in the
acclaimed Oxford Authors
series under the general
editorship of Frank
Kermode. It brings
together a unique
combination of Sidney's
poetry and prose,
including The Defence of
Poesy, substantial parts
of both versions of the
Arcadia, and the whole
of the sonnet sequence
Astrophil and Stella.
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Two young women living
during the First World
War find their solitary
life interrupted. There
exists a complex
relationship between a
German countess and a
married Scottish soldier.
A wounded prisoner of war
has a disturbing
influence on an
Englishwoman. These three
novels deal with human
relationships and the
devastating results of
war.
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Joseph K, a respectable
functionary in a bank,
is suddenly arrested and
must defend his innocence
against a charge about
which he can get no
information. K is never
told what he is on trial
for, and when he says he
is innocent, he is
immediately asked
'innocent of what'? Is he
perhaps on trial for his
innocence?
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Where you tend a rose,
my lad, a thistle cannot
grow. Orphaned and sent
to live with her uncle in
his austere manor on the
moors, Mary Lennox is a
lonely and unhappy child.
A meeting with Dickon,
her servant's brother
begins her adventure and
it is through their
friendship and her
relationship with her
troubled hypochondriac
cousin Colin that she
begins to learn about
herself. Their lives all
begin to change when a
Robin shows Mary the door
to a mysterious secret
garden.
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After the death of old Dr
Grantly, a bitter
struggle begins over who
will succeed him as
Bishop of Barchester. And
when the decision is
finally made to appoint
the evangelical Dr
Proudie, rather than the
son of the old bishop,
Archdeacon Grantly,
resentment and suspicion
threaten to cause deep
divisions within the
diocese.
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However you try to escape
it, horror is always
there Outside the abbey's
armoured walls, the
common poor are ravaged
by a grisly pestilence
known as the 'Red Death',
while within, safe and
untroubled, the happy
Prince Prospero hosts
lavish entertainments.
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During the early weeks of
the Korean War, Captain
Lee, a young South
Korean officer, is
ordered to investigate
the kidnapping and mass
murder of North Korean
ministers by Communist
forces. For propaganda
purposes, the priests
are declared martyrs,
but as he delves into the
crime, Lee finds himself
asking: What if they were
not martyrs?
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This selection brings
together thirty of
Woolf's best essays
across a wide range of
subjects including
writing and reading, the
role and reputation of
women writers, the art
of biography, and the
London scene. They are
enchanting in their own
right, and indispensable
to an understanding of
this great writer.
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A neurasthenic aristocrat
turns his back on the
vulgarity of modern life
and retreats to an
isolated country villa.
Here he pursues his
obsessions with exotic
flowers, rare gems and
perfumes and embarks on a
series of increasingly
strange aesthetic
experiments.
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Commander-in-chief of the
Islamic army, Hamza,
pursuing Laqa, makes
false claims to divinity.
Laqa takes refuge in
Kohistan, adjacent to
the enchanted land of
Hoshruba, ruled by the
formidable King of
Sahirs, Afrasiyab Jadoo.
Afrasiyab reveres Laqa
and deputes his sahirs or
wizards to help him fight
Hamza.
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The plot of this novel
revolves around the
feminist movement in
Boston in the 1870s. F.R.
Leavis called it one of
the two most brilliant
novels in the language.
The novel's many
allusions to the
historical and social
background of Boston
society are explained in
the editorial material.
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The story of Abelard and
Heloise remains one of
the world's most
celebrated and tragic
love affairs. This title
follows the path of their
romance from its reckless
and ecstatic beginnings
when Heloise became
Abelard's pupil, through
the suffering of public
scandal and enforced
secret marriage, to
their eventual
separation.
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Basil Ransom, a young
Mississippi lawyer
arrives to Boston in
search of a career.
Through his cousin,
Olive Chancellor, Ransom
comes to meet Verena,
the beautiful daughter of
a charlatan faith-healer.
Olive hopes to win the
girl over to the feminist
cause, Ransom is
attracted to her looks,
and a battle for
possession of the girl
begins.
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Fifteen men on the Dead
Man's Chest - Yo-ho-ho,
and a bottle of
rum! Upon finding a map
in his parents' inn,
young Jim Hawkins joins a
crew on route to the
Caribbean to find buried
treasure. One of his
crew, the charming yet
devious Long John Silver
is determined to snag the
booty for himself and
Jim's swashbuckling
voyage becomes a mutinous
and murderous adventure -
where his own bravery is
out to the test and he
discovers much about
friendship, loyalty and
betrayal.
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Alice was beginning to
get very tired of sitting
by her sister on the
bank, and of having
nothing to do: once or
twice she had peeped into
the book her sister was
reading, but it no
pictures or conversations
in it, 'and what is the
use of a book, ' thought
Alice, 'without pictures
or conversations?' So
begins the tale of Alice,
following a curious
White rabbit down a
rabbit-hole and falling
into Wonderland. A
fantastical place, where
nothing is quite as it
seems: animals talk,
nonsensical characters
confuse, Mad Hatter's
throw tea parties and the
Queen plays croquet.
Alice's attempts to find
her way home become
increasingly bizarre,
infuriating and amazing
in turn. A beloved
classic, Alice's
Adventures In Wonderland
has continued to delight
readers, young and old
for over a century.
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Featuring the
'illustrious, immortal
and colossal-minded'
Samuel Pickwick, this
title takes you through
an England on the brink
of the Victorian era.
Reform of government,
justice and commercial
life are imminent, as
are rail travel, social
convulsion and the death
of deference, but
Pickwick sails through on
a tide of delirious
adventure.
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Book Two of Rumi's
Masnavi is concerned with
the challenges facing the
follower of Sufi
enlightenment. It
interweaves stories and
homilies in order to
instruct followers of
Rumi, the great
thirteenth-century Muslim
mystic. Jawid Mojaddedi's
sparkling new
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Treasure Island is the
archetypal adventure
story. This edition
includes Robert Louis
Stevenson's account of
how he came to write the
story on a rainy
afternoon in Scotland,
inspired by map that gave
him inspiration. A
full-page copy of
Stevenson's map is
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Keats's letters are 'the
most notable and most
important ever written by
any English poet' (T. S.
Eliot). This new edition
revises and updates
Robert Gittings's
selection and includes
170 letters, a new
introduction and notes,
list of correspondents
and full index
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Born at the stroke of
midnight at the exact
moment of India's
independence, Saleem
Sinai is a special child.
However, this
coincidence of birth has
consequences he is not
prepared for: telepathic
powers connect him with
1, 000 other 'midnight's
children' all of whom are
endowed with unusual
gifts.
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Elizabeth Gaskell's Life
of Charlotte Bronte
(1857) is a pioneering
biography of one great
Victorian woman novelist
by another. This edition
is based on the Third
Edition of 1857, revised
by Gaskell and collated
with the manuscript and
the previous two
editions, as well as
with Charlotte Bronte's
letters, offering fuller
information about the
process of composition
than any previous
edition.
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Ex-detective Nick Charles
plans to spend a quiet
Christmas holed up in a
hotel suite with his
glamorous wife Nora,
their pet Schnauzer and a
case of good Scotch. But
then a bullet-riddled
corpse and a missing
inventor (not to mention
the attentions of a
beautiful young woman)
force him out of
retirement and back into
business.
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One of the great
observers of Australian
life, Henry Lawson has
become part of the
Australian national
psyche, and his short
stories and verse have
come to affect how
Australian's view their
country. This book
reveals Lawson as a
writer whose delightful,
humorous, wry and moving
short stories delight
generations of readers.
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Written by Ryunosuke
Akutagawa - one of
Japan's foremost stylists
and a modernist master
whose short stories are
marked by imagery,
cynicism, beauty, and
wild humour. His other
works include: Rashomon;
In a Bamboo Grove; The
Nose; O-Gin; Loyalty;
Death Register; The Life
of a Stupid Man; and
Spinning Gears.
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Travelling from Paris to
the sunny seaside town of
Balbec, the narrator
meets an intriguing set
of acquaintances who
provide him with both
friendship and
entertainment. Most
significantly, he meets
a dark-haired girl with
sparkling eyes and a tiny
beauty spot on her chin,
the mysterious Albertine,
who becomes the love of
his life.
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Contains two stories -
Notes from Underground
and The Double. Notes
from Underground is a
study of a single
character, 'the real man
of the Russian majority'.
The Double is the story
of Mr Golyadkin, a man
who is haunted or
possessed by his own
double.
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Its Berlin, 1940, and
the city is filled with
fear. At the house on 55
Jablonski Strasse, its
various occupants try to
live under Nazi rule in
their different ways: the
bullying Hitler loyalists
the Persickes, the
retired judge Fromm and
the unassuming couple
Otto and Anna Quangel.
Then the Quangels receive
the news that their son
has been killed.
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I always deserve the best
treatment, because I
never put up with any
other. Beautiful, rich,
self-assured and witty,
Emma Woodhouse delights
in match-making those
around her, with no
apparent care for her own
romantic life. Taking
young Harriet Smith under
her wing, Emma sets her
sights on finding a
suitable match for her
friend. Chided for her
mistakes by old friend Mr
Knightley, it is only
when Harriet starts to
pursue her own love
interests that Emma
realises the true hidden
depths of her own heart.
Delightful, engaging and
entertaining, Emma is
arguably Austen's most
well-loved social comedy.
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Jennifer Roberts
introduces the background
and writing of the 5th
century Greek thinker and
researcher Herodotus of
Halicarnassus, who
invented the genre of
historical investigation.
She discusses all aspects
of his work, including
his fascination with hi
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Recalling his initiation
into the dazzling world
of Parisian high society
and looking back over his
time in the glamorous
salons of the
aristocracy, the
narrator satirises this
shallow world and his own
youthful infatuation with
it. His observations also
educates him in the
volatile nature of desire
as he walks the path
towards adulthood.
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